The new reviewers are the former Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema, the former Atlanta Magazine writer Bill Addison and the notorious penny pincher Ryan Sutton, who analyzes restaurant checks on his blog The Price Hike and was the restaurant reviewer for Bloomberg. All will work full time for Eater, with a “substantial” budget for dining out, said Lockhart Steele, Eater’s founder.

“We have matched what Bloomberg was giving Sutton,” said Mr. Steele, who is vice president of editorial at Vox, the media company that bought the blogs for a reported $20 million to $30 million and recently hired the journalist Ezra Klein. Mr. Steele started the site as a spinoff of Curbed, his popular blog about New York City real estate. Eater plumed itself on being bratty and obsessed with the chefs who run the restaurants that bratty, tech-savvy New Yorkers were obsessed with.

Amanda Kludt, Eater’s editorial director, said Mr. Sutton and Mr. Sietsema would both review New York restaurants on a schedule to be determined, while Mr. Addison would write three times a week, covering the rest of the nation.

One of blog’s guiding principles from the beginning was: No Restaurant Reviews. “Eater itself grew as a reaction to the flood of amateur criticism and food blogs,” Mr. Steele said. “We didn’t want to contribute to that.” Amateur critics, most of them bloggers, often expect to eat for free and, rather than maintaining their anonymity, are not shy about requesting or demanding extras and special treatment.

In the last decade, even as Eater has expanded from New York to 27 cities (and rebranded itself as Eater National), many of the daily and weekly newspapers that serve those cities -- like the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle -- have scaled back on restaurant criticism and food coverage. New York City has maintained its cadre of professional critics, but in many places, there is now no critical voice stronger than the chorus at Yelp.com, which offers a platform for consumer feedback, much of it anonymous.

Ms. Kludt said Eater would relaunch on Vox’s publishing platform in the fall, allowing for more “dynamic” reviews that can be annotated, updated and deleted as restaurants change chefs, prices and menus. “If Sietsema hates a dish that Sutton likes,” she said, “you will hear about it.”

Correction:

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that The New Orleans Times-Picayune was among newspapers that have scaled back on restaurant criticism and food coverage. That paper has expanded those efforts.